The image provided in this download was configured to be bootable from either a DVD or USB.Note: The recovery image contains the version of Windows that came installed on your computer. If you have upgraded your operating system, you will need to reinstall the upgrade after you have restored your system to the factory settings.

Identify your Dell PC

To ensure that we provided the correct image available for your Dell PC, provide the Service Tag of the system to which the image will be installed.

Dell’s Hosted Recovery Image is designed to work with Dell systems. It is not designed to be supported on non-Dell PCs.

Paravirtualization support for Windows and Linux guests to improve time-keeping accuracy and performance (see the manual for more information)

Make more instruction set extensions available to the guest when running with hardware-assisted virtualization and nested paging. Among others this includes: SSE 4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX-2, AES-NI, POPCNT, RDRAND and RDSEED

xHCI Controller to support USB 3 devices (see the manual for more information)

Drag and drop support (bidirectional) for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests

Disk image encryption (see the manual for more information)

VMs can now be started in separate mode. The VM process is started headless while the frontend runs as a separate process which can be terminated without stopping the VM.